Nocturne with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Nocturne and Kai'Sa
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Nocturne Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Kai'Sa
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Advice to Understand How Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Nocturne Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nocturne sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kai'Sa helps Nocturne perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This may signal that Kai'Sa does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played together with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Kai'Sa
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nocturne that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a very bad teammate for Nocturne. By locking into the same side as Nocturne, she decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 48.7%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Nocturne and Kai'Sa that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Nocturne. That means you must be very careful when finding Kai'Sa teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Nocturne players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nocturne and Kai'Sa together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne to synergize with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne and Kai'Sa synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, and Death's Dance. When Nocturne bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other common builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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